Philip Bagnall chats with filmmaker Mark Cousins at Cannes Film Festival, discussing his latest project, The Story of ...

CMAT returned for her biggest Irish headline show to date, delivering a triumphant, politically astute performance packed ...

From Electric Picnic to All Together Now, here’s a guide to the best Irish festival for your personality, music taste, and mud tolerance.

Taking Back Sunday thrilled Dublin fans at The Academy with classic emo anthems, crowd chaos, and explosive live energy.

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

The last century BC is regarded by some historians as one of the most pivotal times in the history of the world. At the time the great Roman Republic was in its final decline, with the absolute power ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

One of the most popular lunch spots in 1950s Macon was Anjette’s on Mulberry Street. With a handy location for a lot of local offices, most weekdays it was packed with white collar workers.

The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods of creative and intellectual achievement in world history. It was an extraordinary upsurge of learning and artistic activity that spread throughout ...

Catherine and Margaretta Fox were born in New York State’s “burned over” district in the 1830s. [1] They were the youngest of six children, with their oldest sister Anna Leah Fox (known as Leah) born ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

Like most people involved in espionage, Moura Budberg was largely a creature of her own invention. She spent most of her life shrouded in lies, but she knew the trick to getting people to believe them ...